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Woodland feeling like a rookie again

In his second full year on the PGA Tour, Gary Woodland has reason to feel like a rookie for the rest of the season. That's not a bad thing, either.

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Message to Early-Career Scientists: Work to End Third World Diseases

LINDAU, Germany--There's a magazine ad for an expensive skin care product marketed by Christian Dior that claims to trade on aquaporins, the discovery of which by Peter Agre won him the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2003 (he shared it with Roderick MacKinnon).

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How To Harvest Your Still-Beating App From Facebook’s Body

Facebook may be a fabulous way to get your casual game idea noticed, but there's a bigger, better Web outside Facebook's blue-painted cage--just ask FarmVille. Social2Web wants to help you take your game there. Think of Social2Web by Adknowledge as a kind of virtual scalpel, helping you surgically pluck your carefully crafted game from Facebook and transplant it elsewhere, presumably where it'll make you, not Mark Zuckerberg, more money.

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Only Five Networked Cars For Every 1,000 Would End Traffic

By hooking up just a few cars to a grid that allows engineers to adjust conditions based on real-time traffic conditions, everyone would be blessed with congestion-free rides. It’s safe to say, despite Nevada's recent approval of fully automated vehicles , that we Americans are ambivalent about the prospect of networked cars

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India Turns To China To Fight Cyberspies

The Indian government has put Chinese mobile giant Huawei in charge of inspecting imported smartphone equipment for secret spyware. But who's spying on whom? The Indian government is teaming up with Chinese tech giant Huawei to search imported smartphones and communications devices for signs of malware and spyware.

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Nobelist Kroto: What’s The Evidence For What You Accept?

Harold Kroto won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1996 for the discovery of buckminsterfullerene, the soccer ball shaped form of carbon better known as buckyballs. On June 28, he spoke to students [at the Lindau Nobel Laureates meeting] about science as a philosophical construct: "I'm going to talk about what science is because it's a totally misunderstood sort of subject

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